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UNINA9910496143803321 |
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America at century's end / / edited by Alan Wolfe |
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Berkeley : , : University of California Press, , [1991] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 579 pages) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Social change |
Social institutions - United States |
Social problems |
Electronic books. |
United States Social conditions 1980- |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-554) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : change from the bottom up / Alan Wolfe -- Backward toward the postmodern family : reflections on gender, kinship, and class in the Silicon Valley / Judith Stacey -- Coping with commitment : dilemmas and conflicts of family life / Kathleen Gerson -- Minor difficulties : changing children in the late twentieth century / Gary Alan Fine and Jay Mechling -- Ambivalent communities : how Americans understand their localities / Claude S. Fischer -- Mirrors and metaphors : the United States and its trade rivals / Fred Block -- Uncertain seas : cultural turmoil and the domestic economy / Katherine S. Newman -- Labor and management in uncertain times : renegotiating the social contract / Ruth Milkman. |
The blue-collar working class : continuity and change / David Halle and Frank Romo -- The enduring dilemma of race in America / Bart Landry -- Passages to America : perspectives on the new immigration / RubeĢn G. Rumbaut -- The hollow center : U.S. cities in the global era / Sharon Zukin -- National news culture and the rise of the informational citizen / Michael Schudson -- Schools under pressure / Caroline Hodges Persell -- Doctor no longer knows best : changing American attitudes toward medicine and health / Jonathan B. Imber -- Unlikely alliances : the changing contours of American religious faith / James Davison |
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